Welcome to the start of the best week of your life! Today’s Daily Word is dedicated to paying yourself first! As a financial literacy expert, I always encourage this as a key principle in getting your finances in order, but today, I am not just talking about paying yourself first monetarily! Today as I discuss this principle, I am discussing what you owe to yourself, your duties, your obligations!

Often times, we tend to put other people’s needs in front of ours, not realizing that we’re doing both parties an injustice! If you are not consistently improving yourself, you are limiting what you can give back to the world! You weren’t put on this earth to be mediocre! You were put here to maximize your full potential, and the only way you can do that effectively is to constantly work on you! You have a duty to give back to the world, but how can you if you aren’t at your best???

Stop being selfish and be selfish!! Work on making you the best you that can possibly be and in that you will be doing yourself and the world justice!! Pay yourself first! It’s not only the best way to go but your mandatory duty!! -Ash’Cash

“For today and its blessings, you owe the world an attitude of gratitude.” -Unknown

“”Doing your own thing” is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love.” -Barbara Sher

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” -Anthony Robbins

“We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.” -Albert Einstein

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.” -Marian Wright Edelman

“Your most important obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.” -Richard Bach

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” -Abraham Lincoln

“The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.” -Unknown

Ash’Cash is a Business Consultant, Motivational Speaker, Financial Expert and the author of Mind Right, Money Right: 10 Laws of Financial Freedom. For more information, please visit his website, www.IamAshCash.com.